As a response to the news that Rod, Arnie and Dawn syndicated
show had been pulled from active rock KRXQ 98.5 FM Sacramento, Don Geronimo on crosstown Sportradio KHTK 1140 AM read
their website statements during his show.

Rob, Arnie, and Dawn have been suspended for their
insensitive comments regarding the tragedy at the Boston Marathon, and Thursday
released a statement on their website, not apologizing for their actions, but
claiming that they’ve done nothing wrong.

Furthermore, they blame Don for
getting them in trouble, and Entercom for “bullying” 98 Rock for suspending
them.

As Don reads their statement out loud (Click Here for audio), which, he says is
full of lies and blames other people for their behavior, and also played clips
from the R-A-D show Wednesday, in which they make fun of a spectator who had
his legs amputated, rip the Oakland A’s fans who chanted “Lets Go Boston!” at
the Coliseum Tuesday night, the Yankees for playing “Sweet Caroline,” and tease
their “Top 5 Things We Hate About Boston” list.

Geronimo then went on an epic tear, ripping Rob, Arnie, and
Dawn a new one for their hack show, their inexcusable actions, and then lying
to everyone in their website statement, and not taking responsibility.

On May 28, 2009, Rob and Arnie engaged in a 30-minute
conversation in which they described transgender people as "freaks,"
and "idiots."

Arnie said, "You know, my favorite part about hearing
these stories about the kids in high school, who the entire high school caters
around, lets the boy wear the dress. I look forward to when they go out into
society and society beats them down. And they end up in therapy."

Arnie also said, "If my son, God forbid, if my son put
on a pair of high heels, I would probably hit him with one of my shoes."

Subsequently, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against
Defamation (GLAAD) and others demanded an apology. Arnie declined to apologize,
on the grounds that he was joking and not actually advocating violence against
children. He said, "I didn't do anything wrong."

Clear Channel Media and Entertainment and Blue Chair
Records/Columbia Nashville announced Thursday an integrated promotional and
marketing partnership to preview Kenny Chesney's new Life On A Rock album, set
to release April 30.

Clear Channel will host an exclusive iHeartRadio Album
Release Party – featuring a never-been-done-before one hour live conversation
and listening session with Chesney in the iHeartRadio Theater in New York City
on April 29 at 1 p.m. EST. The event
will be hosted by the syndicated morning show host Bobby Bones of WSIX
Nashville.

Kenny Chesney has sold over a million tickets to each of his
past 10 tours, won the Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music's
Entertainer of the Year Award a combined eight times, had 24 No. 1 hits and
sold more than 30 million albums. The
people, places, moments and feelings of a driven man at rest inspired his
upcoming Life On A Rock, which celebrates life, the rhythms of being alive, the
joy of friendship, the beauty of the world and the pleasures of slowing down.

The event will broadcast live across more than 100 Clear
Channel Country radio stations as well as station websites and iHeartRadio.com. The Album Release Party and its live stream
will be promoted on-air extensively across Clear Channel Country radio
stations' nationwide and across its digital platforms, including iHeartRadio
beginning Thursday, April 25.

Following the Kenny Chesney iHeartRadio Album Release Party,
Clear Channel will begin its immersive two-week Artist Integration Program,
leveraging its powerful on-air and online platforms. The program allows fans and listeners the
opportunity to fully experience Life On A Rock, through exclusive content,
audio clips, on-demand video from the release party, in addition to hearing the
complete album on-demand via Clear Channel's Country stations websites.

"I'm happy the folks at Clear Channel are giving me an
opportunity to talk to the fans about this really personal record,"
Chesney said. "When you take a risk
and do something outside the box, make an album that pulls back some layers and
expectations, you want the fans to share in where the music came from, just as
much as you want people to see their lives in your song… This lets me bring
them the man I am when I'm not onstage."

Tom Poleman

"We're excited to play a key role in the album launch
for one of Country music's biggest artists, Kenny Chesney," said Tom Poleman,
President of National Programming Platforms, Clear Channel Media and
Entertainment.

"The marriage of
Kenny's music and our unmatched country platform, including the largest number
of country radio stations and iHeartRadio, allows Clear Channel to bring music
to consumers like no one else."

Radio One personality J-Kruz of KBFB 97.9 FM the Beat in
Dallas recently joined CW Network’s “Eye Opener Morning Show” as the host and
co-producer of the new music segment “The Underground.“

The show features urban independent artists from across the
country. The program will air weekday mornings in Dallas/Fort Worth, Philadelphia, Miami, Houston, Portland, Myrtle Beach, and Fort
Smith, Ark.

According to The Pittsburgh Courier, the 10 year radio veteran hand picks the artists featured on
the show each week. Childish Gambino,
Kat Dahlia, and Jon Conner are a few of the artists recently spotlighted.

Making the transition from radio to television has been a
great experience and he welcomes the challenge.

“I’m truly grateful to the staff at CW for giving me this
opportunity. I know all sides of radio, but television is new to me and they’re
allowing me to learn as I go,“ he said.

“We’re very fortunate to have J-Kruz contributing his
in-depth knowledge of new and upcoming artists,” said Justin Allen, the
executive producer of “Eye Opener.” “The Underground” has quickly become one of
the favorites among viewers and our own producers.”

J-Kruz radio career began in Pittsburgh at WAMO 106.7. For the past two
years he’s worked at 97.9 the Beat in Dallas
weeknights from 7 p.m.–12 a.m. He also produces a weekly segment called
“Raising the Bar” where he promotes local emerging artists. His dynamic personality and popularity in the
community keeps him busy hosting events throughout the city.

The program is a 2 hour syndicated morning news, comedy and
variety show that airs weekdays in various cities, he said. It’s a new hip
morning show geared to young working adults... it’s not your typical morning
show. It covers politics, pop culture, health issues, gossip and more. “It’s fun and a new approach and the
syndication is growing they’ll be adding more cities in the near future,” he
continued.

NBC was not a fun place for Ann Curry to be in the time
before her exit from the Today show in June of 2012.

A new book by Brian Stetler entitled Top of the Morning:
Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV exposes the humiliation that Ann
suffered at the hands of her co-workers in her final months as anchor.

According to an excerpt published in the New York Times magazine, one employee told Stetler about a day when Ann wore a bright yellow
dress which prompted the control room staff to post a picture of her to hold a
"Who Wore It Best?" comparison with Big Bird. Even the show's
executive producer Jim Bell reportedly got in on the jokes by commissioning a
blooper reel of Ann's worst on-air mistakes.

Curry, Lauer in 'happier' times

The author also claims that Curry has told her friends that
her final months at Today were a form of professional torture.

National Public Radio began broadcasting over the weekend
from its new $201 million headquarters nine blocks north of the Capitol. NPR is
consolidating its staff into one location after previously being in several
locations. Its personnel have been moving to the new location in stages.

According to Radio World, most of the equipment in the new
location is digital and the network hired Rasmus Auctioneers to liquidate its
analog gear.

Much of the news staff has migrated to the new facility and
the newscasters begin broadcasting from the new location on Friday.

The new facility was designed to accommodate the network’s
evolution from a radio broadcaster to a multimedia operation, according to the
broadcaster. Key features include a two-story newsroom where news, music and
digital staff work together and a 250-seat performance studio. Studios were
designed with public viewing areas.

The broadcaster has some 700+ employees. The new NPR headquarters totals 440, 000
square feet of space.

Couser is remembered as the host original host for the
locally produced KONO-TV dance show, “Swingtime,” which was patterned after
Dick Clark’s “American Bandstand.” His
Top-40 antics included his beloved, often sassy alter-ego character George the
Duck.

“He had a real good duck voice,” recalled Bruce Hathaway,
the pioneering radio deejay and personality who welcomed the Rolling Stones on
the British band’s first visit to San
Antonio in June 1964.

Longtime Springfield, IL radio personality Jeff Hofmann died at 9:05 p.m.
Wednesday at St. John’s
Hospice after a long illness.

He was 60.

Hofmann served as news director and had been part of the “AM
Springfield” program on WFMB-AM (Sports Radio 1450) along with Sam Madonia and
Paul Pachlhofer since 1998.

According to s-jr.com, Hofmann began his broadcasting career
in Cape Girardeau, Mo.,
and then worked in the Belleville area before
moving to Springfield.
His first job in Springfield was at 1450 WCVS as
a disc jockey in 1981, and the St.
Louis native worked at WCVS until 1990. He left to
work for United Cerebral Palsy Land of Lincoln as development director.

Hofmann returned to Sports Radio 1450 in 1998, replacing
John Hareth as news director and becoming Madonia’s partner on AM Springfield.
He took a leave of absence in December to tend to his medical needs.

Greater Media announces Market Manager Rob Williams has been
promoted to Vice President of the company’s Boston-based radio properties,
including MAGIC 106.7/WMJX-FM, HOT 96.9/ WBQT-FM, Country 102.5/WKLB-FM, Radio
92.9/WBOS-FM, and 105.7 WROR-FM.

“Rob has done an outstanding job since he joined Greater
Media Boston in taking the cluster to the next level,” said Peter H. Smyth,
Chairman and Chief Executive Office of Greater Media, Inc. “He is a brilliant
strategist and respected leader. We are very proud to have him in our family.”

Williams, who joined Greater Media Boston as the Market
Manager in January of 2012, is a veteran radio professional who has led some of
the industry’s most successful radio stations over his career. Prior to joining
the company, he served as CEO of Digital Brand Connections LLC, a company he
co-founded.

Prior to that, Williams was a long time executive with Clear
Channel Radio, where he led the company’s largest region by revenue (29 markets
including major markets New York City, Philadelphia, and Boston), and later
served as President and Market Manager for Clear Channel’s industry leading New
York City stations, among them the legendary Z100 and perennial highest billing
radio station in the US, WLTW.

He left Clear Channel Radio following that company’s sale in
2008 and became CEO of Internet radio start-up Goom Radio, a service he
launched in the US
in 2009.

Twitter #Music, a service which'll help you discover tunes
based on Twitter activity, doesn't exactly come as a surprise.

Rosa Golijan at nbcnews.com reports the social network's
been teasing this one for a while and the rumor mill's been steadily churning
out its secrets. But, as of Thursday, the service is finally official.

Twitter #Music relies on tweets and engagement to detect
which songs and artists are particularly popular. In theory, you should be able
to discover something of interest by scrolling through top charts or searching
through songs shared by the people you follow. Twitter #Music lets you see
which songs and musicians your favorite artists listen to and follow as well.

FRIDAY UPDATE: An Entercom official is now saying there’s no definite return date for the
syndicated show R-A-D to return to the air.

Rod, Arnie & Dawn have been pulled off the air at
Entercom’s KRXQ 98 Rock after a morning show bit about making a list Top 5 reason To Hate Boston. The list bit never did air.

But the controversy is heating up. (See original posting, Click Here.)

The trio hope to return to the Sacramento air on Monday. However, Entercom management
may reconsider after the following posting to the Rob, Arnie & Dawn website:

...On Wednesday, April 17, our show came under
attack from a Sacramento radio host who would love to call himself a
'competitor,' but who instead is just another bottom-feeder looking and hoping
for ways to better himself by disparaging and defaming us, our show and others
in the local media market. Outrageously,
he came out claiming that we in some way intended or were being insensitive or
callous to the victims of the Boston
tragedy. We refuse to stoop to this
individual's despicable level, but instead want our listeners to know and
understand that we did not, would not, and under no circumstances have intended
in any way to have been insensitive, callous, dismissive, disparaging or
otherwise to or of the victims of the Boston
tragedy. To the contrary, of course we
are and have been sickened, disgusted and angered at whomever the cowards who
carried out the senseless and disgraceful terrorist acts and the terrible
injuries and harm caused to innocent victims.

The Nature of our show demands honest, noble and real
discussions, debate, emotions and, at times, irreverence. For the past two days
we have engaged, for hours, in heated exchanges with one another and with you,
our loyal listeners, to try to make sense of the non-sensical acts perpetrated
on not just Boston,
but our nation as a whole. We have expressed fear, anger, outrage, disbelief,
and at times everything from great despair to unbridled hope. During rare
moments when there was laughter, it had nothing to do whatsoever with the
tragedy, but instead was intended to divert, distract and bring much-needed
levity to an awful event and situation.

For reasons unclear to us, our Sacramento carrier, 98 Rock
(KRXQ), allowed itself to be bullied and misled by the local radio host who so
grossly distorted truth and facts, and in 98 Rock's ill-judgment, it informed
us late Wednesday evening that we are pulled off the air until Monday. We understand a radio station's desire and
instinct to protect itself for economic and political purposes, but this is
absurd. Our Sacramento
carrier has elected a knee-jerk reaction to a fabricated and manufactured smear
campaign by a local thug who is more than happy and willing to politicize and
sensationalize the Boston
tragedy for his own short-term gain. To
this, we at the Rob, Arnie and Dawn Show say, you're a sad, pathetic character,
shame on you, and shame on 98 Rock and their parent company, Entercom
Communications.

98 Rock aired music during the morning time slot Thursday.

Meanwhile, crosstown Ron Geronimo Thursday morning aired
clips of the R-A-D show from Wednesday morning.
The trio were heard joking about the "top 5 list" with Arnie
claiming he could come up with nine things, discussing how a man whose legs
were blown off while watching his girlfriend run could "hold that over her
head forever," and asking whether it was too soon for jokes about Boston.

Apparently, R-A-D Geronimo heard what he interpreted as making fun of the victims of the Boston
Marathon tragedy. Don, infuriated, ripped them a new one, according to the
station website. Geronimo mades numerous
phone calls to their request line, only to get a cowardly phone screener who
would hang up on him when he would ask to be put on the air.

Geronimo told his listeners he heard his rivals start their
Wednesday talking about a "Top-5" list of things they hate about Boston.

"I can understand you want to be contrarian, I can
understand you want to be a shock jock,
I can understand you want people to talk about what you're doing, but what kind
of stupid asses are you ... to be making jokes about it ... a random top-five
list about what you hate about Boston. I
don't get it ... this is not something -- maybe I'm the one with the problem,
that, you know, I'm the one that's the shock jock here doing the shock jock
radio show and I don't feel good making jokes about what happened in Boston. I love Boston
and it pisses me off what they're presenting."

WQAM has hired its replacement for Dan Sileo, and the
station stayed in-house in doing so.

John Renshaw, who has been hosting weekend shows at WQAM
since August, has been moved into the weekday 10 a.m. slot, WQAM program director
Jorge Sedano told the Sun-Sentinel Wednesday.

The John Renshaw Show will start Monday, following the Joe
Rose Show. Alex Donno, who hosts the Miami Hurricanes in-studio game coverage,
will be Renshaw's sidekick.

The 10 a.m. spot had been filled by Sileo before he was
fired on March 4 after 11 controversial months at the station. The former Miami
Hurricanes football player could not be reached for comment Wednesday night.

The Temkin Group has just released a report, Media Use
Benchmark, 2013. This data snapshot examines the time spent by U.S.
consumers using different media sources and the changes from 2012.

In January 2013 Temkin surveyed 10,000 U.S. consumers about their media
use patterns and compared the results to data that we collected in January
2012.

The analysis examines internet usage (at home and at work),
reading of books and news (online and offline), TV watching, radio listening,
and mobile activity. The data snapshot breaks down the data by age, ethnicity,
income, and geographic region.

The first figure in the report (out of 14 total data
graphics) shows the overall usage levels in the U.S. for different media activities:

Here are some interesting factoids about media usage in the U.S.:

Ninety-eight percent of consumers go online at home, 60% do
it at least three hours per day

Fifty-seven percent of consumers use their mobile phone for
going online or using an app, 16% do it at least three hours per day

Sixty-five to 74-year-olds watch the most TV (4.2 hours per
day), 18- to 24-year-olds watch the least (3.6 hours per day)

All ages of consumers spend more time reading paper books
than online books, but the gap is narrower with younger consumers

Consumers making less than $25,000 per year watch 4.5 hours
per day of TV, those making $100,000 or more watch less than 3.4 hours

Thirty-nine percent of consumers making less than $25,000
per year use their mobile phone for going online or using an app, compared with
more than 60% of those who earn $75,00 or more

The hours that consumers spend watching TV goes down with
increasing educational levels

Asians spend twice as much time reading online books as do
Caucasians

African-Americans watch the most TV per day

Fifty-four precent of consumers in the South use their
mobile phone for going online or using an app, compared with 49% of those in
the Midwest

Jon Stewart let CNN have it over its erroneous reporting
that an arrest had been made in the case of the Boston Marathon bombing.

According to Mediaite, Stewart mocked how much CNN kept
boasting of its “exclusive reporting,” which turned out to be exclusive
“because it was completely f#@king wrong,” and was even more blown away by how
CNN was subsequently backing away from and questioning that very report.
Stewart described this as the network “shit[ting] in their own mouths,”
christening CNN “the Human Centipede of News.”

Stewart played a variety of clips in which Wolf Blitzer
touted the network’s “exclusive reporting” on the arrest. Stewart said, “It’s
exclusive because it was completely fucking wrong!” He also got in a veiled
swipe at new CNN head Jeff Zucker for claiming Stewart to be a jealous
competitor.

Boston Radio station collectively to observe a minute of
silence this coming Monday.

The observance at 2:50pm EST will mark the one week
anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombs.

Participation by CBS, Clear Channel, Entercom and Greater
Media has been announced so far.

The NAB’s Gordon Smith says that at least for Boston, “this moment of
silence will serve as a time of reflection, honoring those lost and injured in
this tragic event.” But also “recognizing the countless acts of heroism and
kindness that we saw on Monday and which continue today.”

In the wake of the recent tragedy, Greater Media has
suspended all on-air listener contesting for the remainder of this week on its
Boston-based stations, including WBQT-FM HOT 96.9 FM, WKLB-FM Country 102.5 FM,
WMJX-FM Magic 106.7 FM, WBOS-FM Radio 92.9 and WROR-FM 105.7 FM and will be donating the
money to THE ONE FUND BOSTON instead.

The new fund, announced by Boston
mayor Tom Menino and Massachusetts governor
Deval Patrick, has been created to help the people most affected by the tragic
events that occurred in Boston
on April 15, 2013.

“We discussed it with our team and Greater Media Boston
Market Manager Rob Williams and felt that this was absolutely the appropriate
thing to do in an effort to help all the individuals directly impacted by the
tragic event that took place in our city,” said Director of Programming
Cadillac Jack.

Over the past two decades, the internet has grown to become
a video-fast medium we can access almost everywhere, anytime and do almost
anything with. It’s been a seismic force impacting the entire media
landscape…y’know, the one that we’re still part of.

It’s affected radio, for sure. Time spent online means time
away from broadcast FM and AM. Yet the vitality of our medium has been
confirmed by how well it has held up in the face of the ‘net monster. Radio
continues to reach around 90% of Americans.

Still, at this point, I wondered: Just how important is
radio in people’s lives? Where does it stand compared to the internet and other
media?

So, in early April, we asked 18-64′s in the U.S. how
important the internet and radio are to them, plus TV and newspapers for
comparison. Based on 502 telephone interviews, here’s what we learned…

The internet rules over all. Three-fourths rate it a 4 or 5
on our 5-point scale, where 5 means “very important.” After that, radio and TV
score essentially the same, with half rating them 4 or 5. (TV does have a small
edge in the percentage rating it very important.)

Meanwhile, little more than one-fourth rate newpapers 4 or
5, while nearly a third rate them 1 — that is, “not at all important.” (Take that to your market’s local
advertisers!)

From the perspective of age demos, the ‘net has its biggest
edge over broadcast media at the young end, as we’d expect. But there is no
significant difference between the importance of radio and TV until we get up
to 55-64, where TV has the edge. Even among 55-64′s though, radio is
significantly more important than newspapers. Here are the average scores:

The 28th Annual Rock and Rock Hall of Fame Induction
Ceremony will be held tonight at Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum has announced
additional presenters and performers for the 28th Annual Rock and Rock Hall of
Fame Induction Ceremony.

Four of this year’s inductees — Heart, Randy Newman, Public
Enemy and Rush — are confirmed to perform at the event, which will also honor
Albert King and Donna Summer; as well as Lou Adler and Quincy Jones, this
year’s recipients of the Ahmet Ertegun Award for Lifetime Achievement.

The star-studded event will feature appearances by Usher,
who will perform for Quincy Jones; Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready and Jerry Cantrell
of Alice In Chains, who will perform with Heart; Spike Lee and Harry Belafonte,
who will pay tribute to Public Enemy; Carole King, who will perform for Lou
Adler; Chris Cornell, who will induct
Heart; comedy legends Cheech & Chong, who will present Adler with his
award; and Jackson Browne and John Fogerty, who will perform with Randy Newman.
John Mayer and Gary Clark Jr. will perform for Albert King, with Mayer giving
the induction speech; 1998 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Don Henley will
induct Randy Newman; Christina Aguilera and Jennifer Hudson will perform in
honor of Donna Summer; and Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins of the Foo Fighters
will present Rush.

The induction ceremony will be presented on HBO on Saturday,
May 18 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. More talent will be announced prior to the show.

Access.1’s Talk station in Gotham
has reportedly has announced that Dr.
Joy Browne will be joining the line-up at its WWRL 1600 AM. Although no time period has been given, the
show is expected to start airing this coming Monday 4/22/13.

Browne was let go from its longtime home at WOR 710 AM as
Buckley Broadcasting was transferring the station to Clear Channel.

Dr. Browne’s show is now syndicated by Radio America.

While making the move, WWRL GM Adriane Gaines stated:

“We are very pleased that
Dr. Joy Browne is joining the ‘RL lineup and bringing her on-air advice to our
listeners. Joy’s unique blend of wisdom,
balance and practical solutions to coping with life’s challenges has made her
one of America’s
leading clinical psychologists.”